cooking career started. where i started washing dishes, where i started have pretensions of culinary grandeur. it was a good gig for anybody. you had to be in a band, here we were, we were dishwashers. yeah, you get older and more sense and you realize that like, you know, you got to like pace yourself a little bit. otherwise, we still wouldn t be here. well, you know, many of our friends from those days didn t make it. many of my friends are dead, yeah. [ applause ] as you were. keep drinking, keep drinking. thank you. thank you, tony. this place has been here forever. that used to be the back room. back room s still there. see, it s all falling into place again. yeah. it s not that much different. it s early spring now, but come memorial day, it gets crazy around here and doesn t stop until labor day. provincetown was always gay-friendly, in my time and
said really? the next day i put on the apron, and i didn t take it off for 30 years. i d wake up. we d go to the beach until 2:00 or 3:00. it was fun. roll into work. work all night. drinking, getting high, drilling out food. you got all the food you wanted, all the lick ere you wanted. all the sex you wanted. yeah. and you were still an essential part of the economy. it was fun. i remember. the flag ship, it s where i started washing dishes and started having pretensions of culinary grandeur. who else got to live like that during that time? you had to be in a band. here, we were dishwashers. you get older and realize you have to pace yourself a little bit. otherwise we still wouldn t be here. many of our friends from those days didn t make it. yeah.
is we ve been smart in keeping american ground troops out of this. this is not something where we want ground troops. we don t want military advisers in there. and we don t want forward air control parties in there on the ground that have to be backed up by combat battalions. this is something that these countries in the region are going to fight about for a long time, because it s really about a combination of three things. it s about regional dominance, iran versus saudi arabia. it s about turkey s pretensions in the region, turkey versus iran. and it s about shia versus sunni islam. and all three of those things are elements that we don t have a direct interest in. what we want is a reduction in the violence. we want to promote humanitarian vision in the region and we want to promote economic development, peaceful economic development. so we can t influence this directly with military forces on
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you have all the food you wanted, all the liquor you wanted. all the sex you wanted. all the sex you wanted. it was true, it was fun. we had a good time. and yet you still were an essential part of the economy. it was a lot of fun, believe me, i remember. the flagship, it s where my cooking career started. where i started washing dishes, where i started have pretensions of culinary grandeur. it would seem like a good gig for anybody. who else got to live like that at that time? you had to be in a band, here we were, we were dishwashers. yeah, you get older and more sense and you realize that like, you know, you got to like pace yourself a little bit. otherwise, we still wouldn t be here. well, you know, many of our friends from those days didn t make it. many of my friends are dead, yeah. [ applause ] as you were. keep drinking, keep drinking. thank you. thank you, tony. this place has been here forever. that used to be the back room. back room s still t